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Times are good. Doomsaying is worse than ever.
2020 was the worst of times. It was also the worst of times. See, I promised that this newsletter is for English majors. The pandemic lockdowns ground…
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Microchips Turn Sand Into Mind
But like Stanford and the Third Reich, microchips were the brainchild of an eugenicist
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7 Things Mark Meadows Staked His Career On
So Mark Meadows, Trump’s morally broken onetime chief of staff, has pleaded not guilty. He did not, he says, participate in an illegal scheme to try to…
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What if You Just Hate Making Dinner?
A big hello to all the new subscribers who’ve joined up over the last week! Welcome! Serving up a piece dedicated to all people who not only don’t like…
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The Existential Non-Crisis on College Campuses
Humanities classes are happiness classes
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August 2023
Evopsych Delusions
The Declaration of Independence is a diabolically brilliant piece of prose. This first sentence, especially, works like sorcery. It manages to style the…
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If only Rudy's dad could see him now
Harold Angel Giuliani, the father of Rudy, once served 18 months at Sing Sing for robbing a milkman at gunpoint for $128.82. Harold gave a fake name to…
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THIS is what makes my head spin
Yes, I was hoping for a nice round hundo, but 91 felony charges against the former president is still impressive. Especially since the indictment record…
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To Observe the Muon Is to Experience Hints of Immortality
Attempting to model the universe as precisely as possible is to try to see the one thing that even the strictest atheist agrees is everlasting
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The Playstation Riot
The captivating Kai Cenat and troubles in Union Square
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One Nation, Divided By A Common Language
This 24-hour moral gym can be exhausting. A cry of pain can be heard at all hours: “I didn’t say that! I didn’t mean that! I’m a good person!”
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July 2023
Elon Musk just X’d out the sharing, caring ethos of the internet once and for all
The blue bird is dead. Long live the black X. As the Twitter birdie flew off to logo heaven this week, something else also seemed to be vanishing. A…
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